Bamanga Tukur
A former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, has advocated dialogue with insurgents to culminate the spate of bombings in the country.
Tukur, who verbalized with journalists in Abuja on Thursday, verbalized he was acerbic and woeful over the Wednesday bombing in the FCT, which led to the death of 21 people.
He verbalized that insurgents must be engaged in dialogue to preserve the lives of people, integrating that all the wars fought in the past conventionally ended up in dialogue.
“Dialogue is the answer. Let us make it more expeditious to preserve the lives of people. We need to reinforce the nation’s defence and I additionally urge Nigerians to always expose the proclivity of people that want to commit atrocity,” Tukur verbally expressed.
He appealed to the Federal Government to reach out to the neighbouring countries in order to address the quandary of insurgency.
He verbally expressed, “We are a component of this nation, patriotism is very paramount, we visually perceive what is going on and people are being killed mercilessly. We should invigorate our defence. The securities are doing their own and we should do our own because security is the responsibility of everybody.
“We should equip our army, police and all the security agencies. We should dialogue with these people (insurgents). We should reach out to our neighbouring countries. Let us invigorate our defence.
“We must do all we can to ascertain that our nation is safe. Wars that were fought in the past ended up in dialogue. All the insurgencies one way or the other must end up in dialogue.”
Tukur, who prayed that God should physically contact the minds of the insurgents so as to stop their nefarious activities, noted that journalists were facing challenges in this period of insecurity.
He called for a one-minute silence in accolade of the tardy Managing Editor, Northern operation, Incipient Telegraph newspaper, Mr. Suleiman Bisala, who was killed in Abuja bomb blast on Wednesday.
